481 So. 2d 793 - MacK v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 645 So. 2d 829 - Chase v. State (1994), Conner v. State (1994)
56 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Holland v. United States · People v. Bennett · 454 So. 2d 445 - Billiot v. State · State v. Harvill
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no reason on principle why an admission by the defendant on a significant element of the offense should not also operate to render unnecessary the circumstantial evidence instruction.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State · Conner v. State“an admission ... [is] a statement by the accused it may be direct or implied of facts pertinent to the issue and tending in connection with other facts to prove his guilt.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“A correct statement is that the instruction must be given where the prosecution is without a confession and wholly without eyewitnesses to the gravamen of the offense charged.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.